Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-11-12
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despondcnt way beside my coffee and
dry toast, roasted the soles OF my slip |
pers and read away my digestion over
the last murder recouniel in the Times. |
Suddenly was startled by the step Of a |
man rushing Iurriedly upstairs. The
door OF MY sitting-roOm was burst open,
and my friend Boulder. fourishing in
his hand heavy hammer, stood before
me and gaspeI out: "I've done il at
last, Smith! I've done it at lastr' Boul-
der is a most excitablc man, with a
wife and large family Of boys.
looked aghast for marks of blood upon
the hammer, for trace of human hair
/, some crack of the handle.
(which Who? How manyw 4
shouted.
"My son, Jack" lie declared. lis the
cause of it all He brought ltupon me.
o, Smith. my dear friend, would you
believed | should ever come to til s?
Cut me some ham,
He sat down opposite me in an easy
chair, turned up his toes also to the fire,
helped himself TO q thick slice of bread,
and said again:
'.Cut me some ham. / must be of to
the hills in ten minutes; and it's well TO
fortify myself, because | may miss my
dinner to-day"
'.Sir! Mr. Boulderr'
'Lct me ring for a cup and saucer
There. now 90 on with your breakfast
and | will tell you all about il. / was
led 10 it entirely b. that hard-headed
fellow. David Pager"
'.Page?
David Page, f. G. S. Hank you!
| Three weeks ago Mrs. Boulder came to
me and said. 'Peterl' / replied.
| .SnsannaIr She said. Look OF Jacks
! clean shirt She showed me shirt
I folded neatly, with its front covered
| with red stains and holes and indeDta-
tons. Mercy | cried. what's the
cause of this?' Jack was ut school,
| round the corner. YOU know-Tickleby'
/ day school. i wish TO show you, Mr..
b. said my old girl, Jacks linen
drawer Followed my wife. Looked
in the drawer Found it filed up with
stones and dirt. In tho drawer below
that, found clay, sand and old shells in
his Sunday jacket. Caused the dirt
/ instantly 10 be carried to the dusthcle.
Further examined drawers in Jacks
room, and in the corner of one found a
book entitled, Advanced Textbook OF
Geology. Descriptive and Industrial,
by David Page. I. G. S.
- That's what has done it, Peter,
Mrs. Il. said. That's the book I've
seen him reading evening after even
ing. He shall read no moro of it,
said !. The book is coniiscatcd.' When
Jack came home at dinDcr-time we had
a great d sturbancc.
Here Boulder gasped over his ham,
and felt pa nfullY nervous. Boulder
went or: . Jack. said /, you shall
never more look on that book put
i on my own library table; l peeped
into il; read bits of il; read more oil
il; ! ked il: studied IT,; l threw my
self heart and soul into It; compre-
hended il; bought hammer"
Here Boulder caught his hammer up
and fourished it again. He was
ev IDENTITY stone mad.
with In hammer. my boy. break
my way into the treasury of nature.
Here Boulder brought his hammer
DOVE md smashed NV fcacup.
.Ah. goodr' he CT cd, taking frag-
ment ND. "A lucky accident Look
at The crystalline fracture. What's
hereP CLAY. What makes the clay
CRYSTALLINE in its fracture? Fire. The.
ory of The igneous rocks. Thickness:
of The pondcrablc crust of the globe.
800 miles. Depth al which most of The
, rocks ordinarily found at the surfac'
would exist in motion state, say five
and twenty miles. Undercrust Of thu
, globe, granite. Here bit
/, Nv exclable fir end took from the
mantlcp'ece handsome paper-weighi
of polished stone.
.'Some ass of man has polished
this line spec men of primitive rock. ;
With one tap of his hammer, Boulder
broke it in Two. Observe he said
'ghc exquisite fracture. +"
'Exquis e.! Confound-
!. "Nevcr pol Sin fine specimen. The
gcOlog sis, my dear boy. is most par
d t;eular TO show you a clean fractur'
!, and nothing else. He breaks stone
! and takes pains not so much rs 10 d n
with iinger's touch the brilliance o
:, the broken surface. Now fracture
, are of various sorts. conchoidal o
+, shell | kn, even, uneven. smooth, splint
prr. liacklev ONLY look in this beau
till Bit of gran te at the siIvery CLEAN
I Of the IN en- and the suety b is of quart
! sprckliag the solid pudding of the field
:, spar. Quartz is of simple mineral
: enc of the hardest knock out lii
I tie chip Of granite, aud YOU will OF
:, seryc that il is impossible TO powde
tile quartz in il by blows of hamme
on the huarthstone. You perceive tn
4 lheprthslonc breaks, but the quart
era ms remain uncomm,nuted.
I, MIR. Boulder" l began family.
was made somewhat weak and hope
|, less by my cold, or should have me
= gor with v.go.
3 "Par,lon me. Smith! They remain
= I say. uncommnuted. Let me advis
j YOU ia be gcologist / am going
:, The hills to-day on au excursion. CONF
e All! YOU have a cold. Well, will sto
: exactly half an hour" Here he pulle
! but his watch. II do want on to shal
=. my enjoyment. do want 10 make y0
!. feel The delight CAUSED by the study ,
y geology. l didn't think that | shou
i take ii up myself when turned o.
N Jacks drawers. Page over-persuad'
j, me. He's Just the man to bring the Sc
!, ence home to YOU. ALI! Mrs. B0uld
IL doesn't know it; but I've carried up h
- snare sheets and blankets into one
/. the attirs, and have most beauttf
:. experiment on the formation of mu
- banks from aqueous deposit IN her lin,
~ chest. I've mixed up earth and shel
and shill.ng's worth of shrlmps,
a feYr DAYS when I drain the water o